If the Nats get even more popular which I would like, does this maybe have a negative side. I mean, will the tickets go sky high, will it be hard to get a seat. I would just hate for people who go to games now get pushed out in the cold. Maybe someone more familiar with the sports landscape in this country can give their views. My wife doesn't like sports now except going to Nats games with me. Sorry if this sounds snotty against rednecks but if it gets like say NASCAR or US Football she won't want to go..and I don't blame her.
damn those highly profitable sports, damn them. just appreciate soccer's quaint stage and hope it doesn't stay quaint.
This is silly. Sounds like a nice problem to have to me. The day there's 150K fans at any soccer event in the U.S. would be a good day in my book. I wouldn't care if all the fans there were militant lesbian neofacist Al Qaida members. Anyway, when the Nats play in DC, I'm happy to report there's always at least one redneck there, and I don't appreciate your slander of my ethnic group.
Also, an increased popularity like that would mean MORE TV COVERAGE!! Even the Jr teams. So the high prices for live matches would be a small price to pay. I guess.
You mean when our national team plays in our national capital, there's actually someone there rooting *for* them? That's good to hear.
it would take a while for them to skyrocket, and at anyrate, its not like there isn't high demand now for qualifiers. The WCQ with mexico sold out in like 5 days or less right? They had a high demand then but the ticket prices were reasonable
If the US Team becomse very popular.......... 1) I might actually get to see MLS highlights on ESPN instead of becoming an internet zombie. 2) MLS might turn into a first class league with world class players. 3) Soccer might beat out hockey as the fourth most popular sport. 4) it might spawn a new generation of players to become our Cruyff, Pele, Maradona etc.... The positives far outweigh the negatives.
Am I whining about it? I am pointing out a fact. Whining would be me saying "These stupid rednecks are drinking all my beer" or "They are hurting the enviornment with all the exhaust". So please Mike, tell me what I am missing by not spending my Sundays watching cars go around and around. If I wanted to do that, I could go watch the Beltway.
In that case, neither is a bunch of furriners with bad hair and tight shorts running around only to fall to ground like a whore on payday everytime someone touches them. Sachin
To make this thread even more ludicrous if it ever becomes a redneck hangout my wife wont go because she's a goth and these people have been *********************s to her in the past. We live in NASCAR heaven and we avoid it. We only buy 2 seats at Nats games so I guess we wouldn't be missed but that's our opinion. Mostly the fans at US soccer games have been great. It ain't as bad as Britain yet! It used to be a skinhead hangout, though I'm not sure about it these days.
And can you explain what NASCAR fans are missing by not spending their Saturdays watching 22 guys in shorts running around like headless chickens and falling over each other. If they wanted to do that, they could shoot pepper spray into the break room at their local UPS delivery station.
See, but they don't run around like chickens with their heads cut off. There is a method as to why soccer players run around. And since this is a soccer message board, so why should I have to defend soccer (a sport) against a skill? I realize that drivers put their lives on the line and all that stuff, but please. The biggest sponsor is a cigarette company that is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. That is one reason why I dislike NASCAR. There are many other reasons, but I will go with the fact that, well, its about as exciting as watching paint dry, except when there are crashes because those are cool (unless somebody gets hurt, that sucks).
Actually, Ticket prices are not that cheap to begin with. The tickets that I had for the debacle at RFK were $40 before the charges. But because I am so important I got them for free. Top tix for Columbus were $75 but at a small stadium that is to be expected. If high prices are the price to pay for a pro USA crowd I'm willing to pay it.
I worked for a local soccer club last summer in the DC area, and we sold tickets for DC United and and national team games at RFK. We would then get some percentage back for selling the tickets. I am not sure the exact amount, but youth soccer clubs always need moeny. So if they raise prices, I will gladly pay, since I know its helping kids play soccer.
Since you don't seem to be a big fan of "irony", I'll be more straight forward. You do realize that "exciting" and "boring" are subjective qualifiers? So unless someone died and made you king, you are not the judge of "exciting" and "boring" for the rest of the world. You with me? No? Okay, take this example - you might think "Dr Zhivago" may be a cinematic tour de force and "Armaggedon" is a 2 hour suckfest, while your neighbor might think the exact opposite. Now comes the beautiful part - neither of you are wrong. You see, it's a matter of taste. So what does this have to do with soccer and NASCAR, you ask? Patience my dear, I was getting to that. So just like you and your neighbor may have different tastes in movies, you might have different tastes in sports. You and I are soccer fans so we get the nuances and subtleties that non-fans don't get. Here's the amazing part - it's the same with NASCAR! Now, I'm not going to pretend that I understand NASCAR, because I don't. But I have friends who are stock car enthusiasts (all nice people, by the way - their lynch mob days are long past) and they see things in races that I don't. They can tell me what one driver's doing when it looks to me like just a dude driving like he's trying to get away from a bad STD. So you see, we understand soccer, so it's exciting to us. They understand racing, so it's exciting to them. Racing fans are people too. Tomorrow, find a NASCAR fan and tell him, not only do you tolerate him but also embrace him, physically and spritually. And give him a hug.
I am a huge fan of irony. Like when Kofi Annan spoke at my school and Henry Kissinger (our chancellor) gave him an award for Annan's efforts to establish peace. I live in irony (I love the French films Amelie and Brotherhood of the Wolf, but I hate the French). If you are a NASCAR fan, fine. I really don't care, IN MY OPINION, NASCAR SUCKS! Deal with it, if anybody asks me what I think about that skill, I will say it sucks. I don't expect everybody to like soccer, but I most of the people I know like soccer. I expect some people hold the same opinion of soccer that I hold of NASCAR and I can sleep soundly at night. People who have to spend their whole life making people agree will live a fruitless life that ends in their own failure or bitterness towards the world, so do yourself a favor and stop.
Dude, I'm sorry, but Armaggedon sucked. No one can deny that. The only good thing about that movie was Liv Tyler, and even then, it sucked. Anyway, about the actual topic of this thread - if ticket prices increase, oh well, that's the price you have to pay for something in high demand. It also means MLS gets more money, which means the incoming players get paid more than your local janitor / fast-food guy. It means we can get top foreign talent and retain our top talent. And if fans start heckling your wife, that means they have no class. None at all. Remember that you're above that low-level trash and ignore them.
No seriously, you don't think Armaggedon wasn't turned into an AFI top 100 film by a Aerosmith song alone?
One of the best nights of my life....whenever the US would sell out a game...let it be done...I really don't think the tickets wouls sky rocket...but it would obviously be harder to get a seat....but also remember if you are on the USSOCCER list of people you get tickets first...so well see... -PB20